re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (resolved)
Monday, April 20, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jesse
(20 messages posted)
Alright, everything seems to work perfectly now. I bought a USB 2.0 PCI card and
now everything works smoothly. Thanks!
On Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 9:14 pm, Jesse wrote:
>I've got a bit of a problem here. I have a Western Digital My Book 500 GB Hard Drive.
>The machine I'm currently on uses a 4 GB hard drive to boot from and obviously that
>isn't nearly large enough. But everytime I plug in the external hard drive, it will
>cause the system to hang and do nothing, but once you remove it, everything will
>continue as normal for no explicit reason. Sometimes after unplugging it and plugging
>it back in, it will work perfectly. Then randomly sometimes, it will show up, but
>as a 4 PETABYTE hard drive which is just insane!
>
>Has anyone gotten a large hard drive like this to work with Windows 2000 over USB?
>Thanks. The drive works perfectly with any system using XP or higher, even though
>Western digital said it should work with Windows 2000 (and it does, but its not
very
>reliable at all.) I would rather not upgrade to XP, but I will if I need to.
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